The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold

20Meyerhold’s Influence on Twentieth-century Japanese Theatre

Min Tian

DOI: 10.4324/9781003110804-32

Elsewhere, I have investigated the influence of Japanese and Chinese theatres on the historical formation of Meyerhold’s theory of theatre and on his lifelong theatrical practices.¹ This chapter will focus on Meyerhold’s influence on the modern development of Japanese theatre. It investigates the ways Meyerhold’s ideas and practices impacted the historical formation of modern Japanese theatre and the ways his ideas and practices were revered, reviled, and refracted in the service of their different theatrical, ideological, and sociopolitical missions. At the same time, it demonstrates that Meyerhold’s approach to traditional Japanese theatre ...